1. Career management and the over 50s: Work in progress from two NICEC projects for the Ufi Charitable Trust Ruth Hawthorn Lyn Barham NICEC seminar, 8 January 2008

2. Project team Management Lyn Barham, Ruth Hawthorn Fieldwork Lyn Barham Judy Alloway Leigh Henderson Heather Jackson Consultant Geoff Ford Evaluation Centre for Research into the Older Workforce

3. Sample Qualitative interviews with: –people who had used nextstep, learndirect, Jobcentre Plus and specialist third-age guidance services –people who gave advice in those services Geographical spread of: –urban north (Manchester and Tyneside areas) –rural southwest (Devon, Cornwall and Somerset), –and home counties (Hertfordshire)

4. Components Personal age-related changes ambition in and commitment to the labour-market health, stamina, values Social/economic contexts economic class cultural Background individual differences abilities and disabilities personal financial circumstances, current and future tastes and preferences (including interest in, and ability/willingness to use, computers and telephones)